Top Phone Scams In the US

Two months after the Robocall Strike Force meeting was held in August, the Federal Communications Commission will be holding their second meeting to discuss industry recommendations on Wednesday, October 26.

“Hiya, a company which makes apps to screen and block robocalls, and tracks about 3.5 billion calls globally every month, released a report Tuesday that identifies the most pervasive phone scams. According to the Robocall Radar report for September 2016, an estimated 984 million robocalls were made to U.S. mobile phone users during the month, averaging to about 4.5 calls received by every cell phone in the country that uses Hiya’s services,” reports International Business Times.

In the midst of the political season and the latest arrests earlier this month in India, check out the top spam and scam calls that are rising and falling by clicking the image below: